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Mexican journalists are under siege throughout the country both from organized crime and abusive government authorities. Reporters and photographers at El Sur newspaper in Acapulco take various precautions to deal with the threats they receive. Education beat reporter, Aurora Harrison, and reporter, Daniel Velasquez, discuss an upcoming story in the graohics room at the El Sur newspaper in Acapulco, Mexico. (Keith Dannemiller/MCT)

Mexican journalists are under siege throughout the country both from organized crime and abusive government authorities. Reporters and photographers at El Sur newspaper in Acapulco take various precautions to deal with the threats they receive. Moving from one daily assignment to another, Carlos Carbajal, a photographer at El Sur newspaper in Acapulco, Guerrero, uses public transportation such as the city bus he is riding here. (Keith Dannemiller/MCT)

Mexican journalists are under siege throughout the country both from organized crime and abusive government authorities. Reporters and photographers at El Sur newspaper in Acapulco take various precautions to deal with the threats they receive. Carlos Carbajal, a photographer at El Sur newspaper in Acapulco, covers a multiple homicide which claimed the lives of six men who were working loading sand and gravel into dump trucks in a dry riverbed in the community of Los Organos on the outskirts of Acapulco. (Keith Dannemiller/MCT)

Criminal assailants entered this home in Xalapa, a city in Mexico's Veracruz state, about a year ago and murdered Regina Martinez, a prize-winning reporter for the Proceso newsweekly magazine, April 12, 2013. (Tim Johnson/MCT)

A rudimentary seal of paper and tape blocks entry to the home of Regina Martinez April 12, 2013, a reporter for the Proceso newsweekly in Mexico, who was slain in late April 2012. (Tim Johnson/MCT)

Mexican journalists are under siege throughout the country both from organized crime and abusive government authorities. Reporters and photographers at El Sur newspaper in Acapulco take various precautions to deal with the threats they receive. Education beat reporter, Aurora Harrison, and reporter, Daniel Velasquez, discuss an upcoming story in the newsroom at the El Sur newspaper in Acapulco, Mexico. (Keith Dannemiller/MCT)

Mexican journalists are under siege throughout the country both from organized crime and abusive government authorities. Reporters and photographers at El Sur newspaper in Acapulco take various precautions to deal with the threats they receive. On daily assignment covering education stories, El Sur de Acapulco reporter Aurora Harrison interviews the head of the Autonomous University of Guerrero after he presented computers to indigenous medical students. (Keith Dannemiller/MCT)

Mexican journalists are under siege throughout the country both from organized crime and abusive government authorities. A man reads a "wall newspaper" with information about the on-going teacher's strike in Acapulco. The large sign reads "Complete rejection of the education and labor reforms" in reference to the proposed reforms being advanced by President Enrique Pena Nieto. (Keith Dannemiller/MCT)

Mexican journalists are under siege throughout the country both from organized crime and abusive government authorities. Reporters and photographers in Acapulco take various precautions to deal with the threats they receive. Freelance crime photographer Francisco Robles uses his mobile device to check messages from fellow photographers and Twitter postings in an effort to learn of recent crimes and to arrive quickly at the scene. (Keith Dannemiller/MCT)

Layout work is done in the graphics room at the El Sur newspaper in Acapulco, Mexico. Mexican journalists are under siege throughout the country both from organized crime and abusive government authorities. Reporters and photographers at El Sur newspaper in Acapulco, Guerrero take various precautions to deal with the threats they receive. (Keith Dannemiller/MCT)

Mexican journalists are under siege throughout the country both from organized crime and abusive government authorities. Reporters and photographers at El Sur newspaper in Acapulco take various precautions to deal with the threats they receive. Carlos Carbajal, a photographer at El Sur newspaper in Acapulco, covers a multiple homicide which claimed the lives of six men who were working loading sand and gravel into dump trucks in a dry riverbed in the community of Los Organos on the outskirts of Acapulco. (Keith Dannemiller/MCT)

Mexican journalists are under siege throughout the country both from organized crime and abusive government authorities. Reporters and photographers at El Sur newspaper in Acapulco take various precautions to deal with the threats they receive. Carlos Carbajal, a photographer at El Sur newspaper in Acapulco, on a daily assignment at a high school, covers volunteer teachers giving classes due to a teacher's strike in the city. (Keith Dannemiller/MCT)

Laura Borbolla Moreno, seen in her office in Mexico City, Mexico, is Mexico's special federal prosecutor for crimes against journalists. (Tim Johnson/MCT)

Mexican journalists are under siege throughout the country both from organized crime and abusive government authorities. Reporters and photographers at El Sur newspaper in Acapulco take various precautions to deal with the threats they receive. "You can't fraternize with the police. You need to have cool, distant but professional relations with them. They can be infiltrated, and if you get close to one officer, an enemy (crime) group will see you as their enemy," said Juan Angulo Osorio, editor-in-chief of El Sur. (Keith Dannemiller/MCT)

Mexican journalists are under siege throughout the country both from organized crime and abusive government authorities. Reporters and photographers at El Sur newspaper in Acapulco, take various precautions to deal with the threats they receive. To protect journalists during working hours, Acapulco municipal policeman, Juan Hernandez Dorantes, 30, guards the entrance to the El Sur newspapers offices from 8 am until 8 pm, each day of the week. (Keith Dannemiller/MCT)

Photos: Mexico’s journalists under siege

Mexican journalists are under siege throughout the country both from organized crime and abusive government authorities. Reporters and photographers at El Sur newspaper in Acapulco take various precautions to deal with the threats they receive.
"You can't fraternize with the police," says Juan Angulo Osorio, editor-in-chief of El Sur. "You need to have cool, distant but professional relations with them. They can be infiltrated, and if you get close to one officer, an enemy (crime) group will see you as their enemy."
Last year, Regina Martinez, a prize-winning reporter for the Proceso newsweekly magazine, was murdered by assailants at her home in Xalapa, a city in Mexico's Veracruz state.